Back-to-school shopping used to mean a trip to the neighborhood’s office supply store to purchase notebooks, pens, pencils, calculators and backpacks. Today, savvy students and teachers rely more on technology than on physical tools to get them through the school year.
Education apps have enabled schools to collaborate, helped teachers with their lessons in the classroom, and resulted in students becoming increasingly interested in learning.… Read more

It used to be a rare thing when start-ups were valued at $1 billion or more by their investors. Now it’s become so common that there are at least 131 start-ups boasting such valuations and a term — “unicorns” — to refer to the companies.
So which start-ups are next to reach the unicorn level?… Read more

There are hundreds of new startups, gadgets and apps released every day from every corner of the web. With that many ideas being marketed and released daily it is hard to keep up with everything. Even with great aggregators like Product Hunt, StartupLi.st, Angel List and Beta List it is easy to get lost in the products that you could care less about.… Read more

Article by Juan Carlos Perez
Making clear that it’s serious about its foray into education software, Google has pushed out a set of enhancements for its Classroom app, barely two months after its release.
The Classroom upgrade also comes a week after rival Microsoft launched a similar classroom assistance application for Office 365 education customers.… Read more